#oh yeah found out what it was doing

[marginal-effect]

2 hours into work and i get a text saying theres a dead mouse waiting for me at home bc my roommate is too scared to remove the trap herself. lol anyway RIP Squeaks

[23z567]

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

charlie brings a certain air of "i COULD care that my gay gf did so many crimes, bi I don't~" to the show that i really love

[quantumfeat72]

But unlike you, who gave up on your wish, and almost destroyed the world in the process...

I gave up on my wish, and destroyed myself.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[justagaycryptid]

Do u follow the Erdtree? No?? Gores you

[puppppppppy]

mascot

[simptasia]

LOST: Season One

[ricky-mortis]

A portrait of Sir John Herschel because I‘m normal about Pulp Musicals

[hana-bobo-finch]

i know this probably isn’t what it means but this is what I think of whenever I read this lore book

[snozzlefrog]

Big ass spoiler warning for SoM wee woo wee woo

But I just HAD to do something for that painting

[arsenicflame]

(I am still in love with you, can't admit it yet)

[lunammoon]

Thinking about something goes screwy with time and the Veilguard all get knocked back about six months before Solas's ritual. Lucanis comes to the conclusion that the last year and a half or so were just his firing off random neurons trying to give him a little bit of, like, not hope, but something other than crushing despair and and tbh it might’ve worked if he had died at the end. Spite is mad because "YOU PROMISED! NOW WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR ROOK" and he doesn't listen when Lucanis tries to remind them that Rook is proballt doesn't exist and Spite keeps shouting but he's not making his nose bleed so that's something. Now that he's awake it's honestly crazy he believed any of it. Blighted Elven Gods? Him finding love? A best friend? Illario betraying him?

Anyway not super long after he "wakes" up there's a commotion due to the fact that there are eight people, a griffon, and a skeleton that have just broken intothe Ossuary Mad As Hell because he's not the only one to have suddenly woken up six months before things got weird but he is the ONLY one to have not had the thought "OH NO LUCANIS!"

Because again, it wasn't a dream. And none of the Veilguard is willing to let Lucanis stay stuck in that prison.

[dustykneed]

you are my sunshine, my only sunshine

you make me happy when skies are gray

(prompt fill for @mcspirkevents' mcspirk bingo prompt "gone with the wind".)

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ouch! neck deep in aos bones feels rn... lmk if i should make a fix-it or somethin

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

I am unreasonably upset about the fact that I've been forced to accept that Gabriel was a Gerald.

For context, in An Inspector Calls, Gerald Croft is engaged to Sheila Birling when he meets a homeless, struggling Eva Smith in a bar, and essentially in return for a home and money he shows her affection (ahem), then gets rid of her once he no longer has a use for her. Now, obviously this isn't a direct translation, but the essentials are - a Gerald is a character who uses another character, in return for something they need, usually masking the fact that they're using them with affection and love.

And against my will I've had to accept that this is exactly what Gabriel does to Nathalie.

Did I want to think he had potential to be better? Did I think he genuinely cared for Nathalie?? Hell, did I just really really want somebody to care about Nathalie???

Probably all of the above but the point is: he's Gerald. And I cannot - I literally can't unsee it now. Their whole dynamic in S3 is like “oh boohoo I'm sorry I wish you didn't have to use the peacock Miraculous and kill yourself over it but uh I need to use your powers” “yeah no that's fine I'm all good”. Which, given the "Gerald" theorem, I'm assuming leads to the fact that what Nathalie needed, above all, was someone to care about her - and Gabriel came along, as Sheila Birling puts it, "like a fairytale prince", and was so caring and gentle and... Yeah. She fell for him. And. Yeah he genuinely did seem to care like twice. But so did Gerald. Gerald actually admits that he did care for Eva, just not the way that she cared for him, and, uh, not enough to not just dispose of her. So he discards her anyway when she stops being useful.

Leading me neatly to my point.

He starts using the peacock Miraculous the second it's fixed, the slimy bastard, HOWEVER. It runs way deeper than that. Assuming I'm right (which I almost DEFINITELY am), then Gabriel only needed Nathalie while she was useful. She didn't stop being useful in season three - she's still scheming for him, helping him with plan after plan. It's only partway through season 5 that she officially servers ties with him, and starts to actively hinder him.

Nathalie stops being useful when she fails as Safari. And I reckon that's when Gabriel and Tomoe decided she had to go.

(It's painfully, I-was-ugly-crying-over-it obvious in Conformation that Gabriel is fully prepared to let Nathalie die - in the original storyboard, her alliance was encouraging her to sleep, and he's very obviously prepared for this moment - I've made a separate post about it that I'll link if I can find it. However, onto the next bit)

With all of this, there's one thing that sticks out to me - Nathalie didn't see any of it until it was already too late. There could be many reasons for this. But you know who would have seen through it? Whose parents were all loving and perfect until she married the wrong man? Emilie. Emilie, who left behind those videos, which on the surface look innocent, but when you look deeper look like a (love confession???????) AHEM a warning. I reckon Emilie noticed what was going on and realised that Nathalie wouldn't see through Gabriel, so she left those videos addressed to Nathalie (not Gabriel, which surely they should have been - they were about him, after all - unless they were there...) as a warning. I don't think the videos were supposed to be about helping Gabriel, I think Emilie was warning Nathalie to get the fuck out of that house, and to take Adrien with her. Because Emilie knew it'd end like this.

Yes I'm still mad ok give me a break.

[swagging-back-to]

worst trope is found family separating as soon as the antagonist is dealt with.